Facebook photo shows evangelist Apollo Quiboloy waving from his Cessna Citation Sovereign jet, which landed at his compound in Davao City yesterday. The private jet was held by US authorities in Hawaii last month

The news site also reported that Salinas was previously arrested in 2015 for allegedly assaulting Kristina Angeles, a fellow church member.

Angeles claimed she was forced to raise money by selling “manapua and Krispy Kreme” donuts for hours, “rain or shine.” In her police statement, she also said that church members were punished if they did not sell enough.

The church’s charity, Children’s Joy Foundation, was also accused of “aggressive fundraising and even misrepresentation.”

For lawyer Clare Hanusz, the case of Angeles “indicated some of the classic signs of human trafficking.”

Before President Rodrigo Duterte left Thursday for his one-on-one with President Xi Jinping in Beijing, he promised to “invoke” the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague that resolved some maritime disputes between the two neighbors.

Eight warships, four aircraft and more than a thousand personnel from the US and ten Southeast Asian countries will join maritime drills kicking off Monday, as part of a joint exercise extending into the flashpoint South China Sea.

China has rejected as “unwelcome” the call of the United Kingdom, France and Germany on the South China Sea claimants to respect the arbitration ruling of 2016 and the rules-based framework laid out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).